Yesterday,
Today I got a long-expected husband (mine), dropped him off home to sleep a bit, and took Kev to Byerly's and Lock And Dam No. One. Tonight we're cooking.
I had not been to Lock And Dam No. One (on the Mississippi). It is nifty. It makes me happy in ways I can't really explain. There are the gears and the walks and the River and the locks and...um...the dam...see, I know that isn't particularly edifying. But it's just good, is what. I came up with going when we got to the River from the Falls Thursday night -- I looked at the River and said, "Lock And Dam Number One!" in a flummoxed voice. Because I've read Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary, is probably why. It hadn't occurred to me that JG&R was set in Mpls because Mpls is so much the archetype of what cities are like to me that all of the Mpls-specific stuff in it just seemed to be the way the world works, the first time I read it. But then it hit me that we, like Rosemary's Girl Scout troop, could go to Lock and Dam No. One. I'm glad we did.